Joseph Zaluchi

Giuseppe "Joe Z" Zaluchi was the boss of the Zaluchi crime family of Detroit during the 1940s.

Biography
Giuseppe Zaluchi was born in Sicily, and he settled in Detroit, Michigan in the early twentieth century. In Detroit, he became involved with the local Mafia, and he took over the Mafia in the aftermath of the downfall of the Purple Gang, becoming the boss of the Zaluchi crime family. He made Detroit a peaceful city, and he allied himself with the Corleone crime family during the Five Families War. At the 1948 peace conference at the Hotel Alioto in New York City, Zaluchi supported keeping drug trafficking "respectable" by confining the drug trade to African-American neighborhoods. He later supported Michael Corleone in his plot to murder Anthony Molinari and Frank Falcone in 1955, as well as in his fight against Carlo Tramonti during the early 1960s. He died of natural causes during the 1970s.